On 08/05/2010 05:22 PM, Ross Sauer -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 RS> "Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
 RS> news:9448$ALL-POLITICS{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>>> One bit of nonsense (California's Proposition 8) was shown to
 RC>> have RS> nothing to it. Just anti-gay bigotry.

 RC>> Yeah screw the will of the voters..

 RS> California voters also approved of locking up "the Japs"
during WW2.

They did? The internment camps were a federal thing and the
Japanese-Americans were "relocated" by executive order signed by
FDR. The states and the voters had nothing to do with it.

 RS>>> And Elena Kagan will now be Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, a
 RC>> big RS> poke in the eye to the professioanl rabble-rousers on the
 RC>> right-wing RS> like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

 RC>> Just like the big pokes in the eye you got when Dubya's nominee's got
 RC>> in..

 RC>> Now tell us about her judicial experience?

 RS> Right after you tell me about William Rehnquist's judicial experience.

Far more than Kagan's.

Here's Kagan's limited experience:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan

Here's Rehnquist's experience -- Notice the 16 years of private practice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rehnquist

Kagan never practiced law as a lawyer. She went from learning to teaching
and then to work for Clinton and Obama.

Rehnquist's judicial experience dwarfs Kagan's.

You really should do more than let HuffPo and Media Matters tell you what to think.

Ed

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